Scientists Say Life Originated on a Comet

[ZeeJustin]

Scientists say life was a SEPTILLION times more likely to have begun within a comet rather than on Earth.

[Stu Pidasso]

From the article

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The 2005 Deep Impact mission to Comet Tempel 1 discovered a mixture of organic and clay particles inside the comet. One theory for the origins of life proposes that clay particles acted as a catalyst, converting simple organic molecules into more complex structures

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Nothing new here, Genesis claimed man was made out of clay a long time ago.

Stu

[Phil153]

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The researchers calculate the odds of life starting on Earth rather than inside a comet at one trillion trillion (10 to the power of 24) to one against.

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What an embarrassment.

[ZeeJustin]

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From the article

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The 2005 Deep Impact mission to Comet Tempel 1 discovered a mixture of organic and clay particles inside the comet. One theory for the origins of life proposes that clay particles acted as a catalyst, converting simple organic molecules into more complex structures

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Nothing new here, Genesis claimed man was made out of clay a long time ago.

Stu

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Yes, but Genesis also claimed...

Never mind.

Too easy.

[soon2bepro]

Hmm I don't know, many top scientist still believe it probably originated on earth.

[All-In Flynn]

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Just thought it was funny.

[Piers]

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Scientists Say Life Originated on a Comet


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Its one possibility I guess. Its also more likely that organic matter from comets contributed to the development of life on earth. Or maybe it was just the water that did it. Its certainly likely that the comet bombardment 4+ billion years ago had some influence on the development of life.

Septillion [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img] Sounds like nonsense, but amusing to see how they got that figure. Did they just divide the amount of clay on the earth by the amount of clay in the solar system four billion years ago?

I see the article was adapted from a news release issued by Cardiff University. Does that mean it was written by one of the scientists or a reporter?

[NotReady]

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Scientists say life was a SEPTILLION times more likely to have begun within a comet rather than on Earth.


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Man. Just when I was completely convinced it was multiverses. Guess ol' Crick wasn't totally loony.

Edit:

Hmm, looks like Crick was a little late:


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Abstract

The panspermia theory has antecedents which go back to the Old Kingdom in Egypt, and which are also found in early Hinduism, the philosophy of the Greek pre-Socratic philosopher Anaxagoras, and amongst the Jewish and Christian Gnostics. It is remarkable how explicit some of these early sources are in suggesting that the entire cosmos is full of seeds, and that life on earth originated from them. Here, a survey is undertaken of all these early beliefs, in order to present a pre-history to these conceptions and show that such ideas appear to be as old as civilization itself.


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[FortunaMaximus]

Well, I dunno who wrote Genesis, but everything started with a Big Bang.

Asteroids : The wadded kleenex of deities. Or something.

Yeah, probably too simplistic. Still a subject ripe for way too much comedy material. o_O

[Phil153]

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Hmm, looks like Crick was a little late:
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The panspermia theory has antecedents which go back to the Old Kingdom in Egypt, and which are also found in early Hinduism, the philosophy of the Greek pre-Socratic philosopher Anaxagoras, and amongst the Jewish and Christian Gnostics. It is remarkable how explicit some of these early sources are in suggesting that the entire cosmos is full of seeds, and that life on earth originated from them. Here, a survey is undertaken of all these early beliefs, in order to present a pre-history to these conceptions and show that such ideas appear to be as old as civilization itself.


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Looks like someone is a little slow. All of history is full of strange ideas about the cosmos and a heap of different formulations of what happened. Just look at religious creation myths of hundreds of different cultures, for example. It's not surprising that ideas will have been thought of before. If I pointed out that Jesus was at least 500 years late to the "love your neighbour" party, you'd say, so what?

Why aren't you quoting the 18th century idea that life arises spontaneously from the dirt in a few days? Oh that's right, because it's been debunked. In an alternative universe where it had just been proven true, there'd be a NotReady somewhere posting how the scientists are so far behind the ancients in their understanding of the world.

What a big fat nothing. It's not a question of the first to come up with a semi-plausible idea, it's a question of the first to give plausible details and credible evidence.